Should a medium or small law firm invest in a Document Management System? Yes. Enterprise search sounds so powerful… can that be used instead? Could you instead leave everything as it is, where it is, and apply Enterprise Search to make it accessible firm-wide? I don’t know of a search solution yet, that eliminates the need for a DMS. What does…

With a search, WHAT you find is quite dependent on WHERE you start. In this article, I describe several of the dimensions involved in default search scope, stemming from WorkSite desktop and server configuration.

Wild cards behave differently in 8.5 WorkSite compared to 8.2, now that the IDOL indexer is available. A particular difference is the default use of wildcards in text fields, and in how wildcards affect search results. With the introduction of Autonomy’s IDOL to the WorkSite suite, a subtle but important change was made to the search…

How many records can I expect one IDOL content engine to handle? The magic number is ten million ‘documents’ per content engine. This is not the simple number of ‘documents’ created: the number is incremented for each version, individual items inside ZIP or compressed folders, and each attachment on contributed email. Beware: some re-indexing techniques also…